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Curiosity Reaches Out with Martian Handshake and Contemplates New Drilling
universetoday.com/ ^ | May 11, 2013 | by Ken Kremer on

Posted on 05/11/2013 11:58:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin

NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached out in a Martian ‘handshake’ like gesture welcoming the end of solar conjunction that marks the resumption of contact with her handlers back on Earth – evidenced in a new photo mosaic of images captured as the robot and her human handlers contemplate a short traverse to a 2nd drilling target in the next few days.

“We’ll move a small bit and then drill another hole,” said John Grotzinger to Universe Today. Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., leads NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory mission.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: curiosity; mars; nasa
NASA, please stop with the anthropomorphizing already.

It isn't cute. It's just annoying.

1 posted on 05/11/2013 11:58:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
It isn't cute. It's just annoying

Cur-E-osy-T.

2 posted on 05/11/2013 12:01:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: Revolting cat!
"Curious? Questioning?"


3 posted on 05/11/2013 12:21:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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Shouldn’t that rover be bowing to Meca 5 times a day in accordance with Islam, a primary objective of NASA under Obama?


4 posted on 05/11/2013 12:22:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: BenLurkin; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3013083/posts


5 posted on 05/11/2013 2:32:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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Drilling...on Mars......well I guess if we can’t frack in the US...Mars is the go-to place to be.


6 posted on 05/11/2013 4:33:25 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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